because there's such venn ration for david petraeus. you would think the worst thing that the cia has ever done is engage in an extramarital affair. i think general petraeus was the architect of a failed counterinsurgency program. i think it's time for our media to pay less attention to extramarital affairs and we need to pay more attention to scandals or concerns like that and also the escalation of the drone war. which the general made a big part of his portfolio. >> you're talking about the failure, talking about afghanistan earlier -- >> talking about iraq as well. because of the counterinsurgency. he was really bargaining with the sunnis and certainly the countinsurgency in afghanistan hasn't proven to be effective. we can argue, i think, is going to fuel a backlash. >> but he gave that statement. he went to capitol hill on september 14th and gave the video protest as the explanation for what happened in benghazi, when two days earlier, his station chief on the ground in libya, it was not a result of a protest. he'll have to answer